Wife of Ash

Charlotte Ash married billionaire rancher Whit Ash after her sister died — a mercy marriage that became a real one and then, quietly, nothing. For two years he has slept in the foreman's cabin and she has run the books from the main house. When a wildfire and a mining lease renewal force their joint signature, Charly agrees — on one condition: he tells her why he left. His answer involves a letter from her dead sister. The letter is a forgery. As they rebuild the burned pasture and fight for the lease, they uncover a scheme to sell the land out from under the family, and the man behind it is his stepfather. A slow-burn billionaire marriage-in-crisis romance about a marriage that was never performed for anyone and has to be earned back in private.